A brief blog about father’s day. A little late I know to write about FD but better late etc. An interesting contrast between my two children in their approach to wishing their elderly? father well. (The last blog I wrote about ‘elderly parents’ was about my mother). When you’re retired, assuming you had them in…
Category: Elderly parents
Retirement and the story of the misplaced plaque
I’m not quite sure how to start this particular retirement blog and you’ll probably think I’ve made it up anway. For one thing it’s not really about retirement per se merely one example of the kind of events that happen to a person who is retired. Well, this person anyway. You see I thought I…
Retirement and the day of my mother’s funeral
Yesterday was my mother’s funeral. It’s over a month since she died and it’s taken a long time to come around. Apparently Nottingham must be a popular place to die. We were offered yesterday as the first ‘opportunity’ and the implication was we’d better grab it quick before somebody else claimed the spot. This gap…
No more elderly parents
It cannot be any surprise that the death of a parent should be a part of many people’s retirement. If we retire when we are 60 or 65 and if our parents have not already died, then they are likely to when we do retire. I must admit, given my mother was 94 when she…
More on elderly parents and retirement
I’ve written before about my experiences in retirement of ‘supporting’ an elderly parent. Here are a few more thoughts. They are meant to be kindly although I admit they don’t sound that way.
For the comfort of others
I’m publishing this (which doesn’t show me in a good light) because, I am told, it gives comfort to others . If I had written this at the time the vitriol would have destroyed my laptop, dripped through the keyboard and into the hard drive! The subject of this blog? My mother. So if you believe…
Emergency Therapeutic blog – dealing with elderly parent
I know it’s not a week since my last blog, a day in fact but I need help. There’s an hour’s jam on the M1 and today is the day for visiting my elderly mother down the M1. I’ve just put the phone down for the third time. It is the above, no, not God,…